No reply on sensitive issue: Mamata Banerjee's 2nd letter to PM on rape-murder

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Writing to PM Modi again, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Centre of not acknowledging her concerns and not appreciating the seriousness of the matter...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over the lack of response to her earlier appeal for stronger legislation on crimes against women in the wake of a trainee doctor's rape and murder in Kolkata...

In her latest letter, a copy of which she posted on her X (earlier Twitter) handle, Banerjee accused the central government of not taking her concerns seriously..

Acknowledging the reply she received from the Minister of Women and Child Development, the Trinamool Congress supremo said it "barely attends the gravity of the issue raised in my letter"...

In a letter addressed to the Bengal Chief Minister, Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi had sharply criticised the state government for failing to implement measures for the safety of women and children...

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